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I WON'T DO THE WORK (Cha Dean Mi'n Obair). AKA "Behind the Bush in the Garden (1)." Canadian, Double Jig. Canada; Cape Breton, Newfoundland. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Variants appear in the Simon Fraser collection (1816) and Kerr’s Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1875), under the title "Wha'll Be King But Charlie” (Se ‘n Righ a th’againn is Fearr Leinn). Dunlay & Greenberg remark that on Newfoundland the tune is played with a simpler rhythm as a fast single jig. Port-a-beul verses to the tune are given by Cape Breton fiddler Jackie Dunn in her 1991 thesis "Tha Blas na Gaidhlig air a h-Uile Fidhleir" (The Sound of Gaelic is in the Fiddler’s Music):